Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
STEVE MARTINThere’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl’s leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.
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I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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